In a stack of files - those of the police, the coroner, hospital authorities, council and a funeral director - he does at least have a number, probably more than one.

The funeral director, who had known her for most of her life, called her ‘feisty,’ a nice diplomatic way of putting it.

Council staff have reinstated the grave and the funeral director is to replace the wooden cross.

Mr Little held back tears as the tiny white coffin was carried to the grave by a funeral director and a cemetery officer.

We are accompanied into the tent by a chaplain, a funeral director and two psychologists, all women.

With almost 30 years' experience working as a funeral director, there are few jokes about his profession Simon Truelove hasn't heard a thousand times before.

Veronica, who was a funeral director for 11 years prior to opening the sanctuary, lost the majority of her sight - she can only see with half of one eye - after a stroke last year.

The bodies are prepared by a local funeral director, wrapped in a heavy shroud, weighted and carried to a designated site miles out to sea where the ceremony takes place.

The funeral home originally was operated out of the funeral director's residence; however, the business soon outgrew the location.

So Dad goes to meet with the funeral director to review the family's requests, and this guy refuses - he says it's undignified and he won't do it.

In the years that followed, she evolved into a counsellor, a funeral director, a nurse and, most importantly, a friend to its members.

Mr Greene said Loram had been employed by him as a funeral director from 1998 until he sold the business on his retirement on 31 December 2002.

One funeral director revealed that 10% of his business, or 15-20 deaths a year, were pre-arranged.

He's from Burnie in the north-west and is best known as being a former funeral director, but he also worked for a decade as a policeman, and he drew on these experiences in the early part of his speech.

A Lewisham funeral director, who preferred to remain anonymous, says the problem for crematoria may well become widespread in future years as the effects of obesity filter down.

Mr Beckwith was at that time working in the removal business and had no experience as a funeral director or undertaker.

Mr Thompson, a funeral director in Harrogate, said his son was only diagnosed with meningitis when a rash appeared, despite suffering seven other symptoms of the condition.

An investigation is under way after a funeral director gave a family the wrong ashes.

While the funeral home business is often passed down from generation to generation, Starry never imagined she'd become a funeral director.

A funeral director who specialises in such cultural aspects is often not attuned to the possibility of combining a selection of these with a non-religious framework for the ceremony.